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Sounds like you need to gear up the drive between propellor & alternator. See the alternator performance curves to get the correct speed. I designed & built one of these a while ago that still works well. I'll dig through my piling cabinet; keep your fingers crossed. Regards, Howard.

Not an answer, just some basics. An electron is a field permeating space. We perceive it as a particle or wave. It's best not to think of fundamental entities as particles or waves, but as fields. Vibration in a field is perceived as a wave or particle depending on the experimental conditions...

I'm Howard Barnes, a retired electronics/instrumentation engineer, interested in physics, maths, engineering &, now, astronomy. Yes, I have other interests, but these are irrelevant to PF (any motorcyclists in here?). I can be pedantic about the use of good English, & insist that explanations...